Frontier AI labs need expert humans to grade, correct and stress-test their models. Deccan AI, founded in 2023, built a network of over a million contributors — students, domain experts and PhDs — largely in India, and sells that work to Google DeepMind and Snowflake.
The man who built India's largest data centre company did it again, for AI. Founded in 2023, Neysa now runs 20,000+ GPUs across Mumbai and Hyderabad — close to 30% of India's high-end AI compute — backed by a Blackstone-led raise of up to $1.2 billion.
Two engineers in Bengaluru got tired of rebuilding the same plumbing for every AI app, so they built it once and sold it to everyone. Three years and $18 million later, Palo Alto Networks bought the company.
